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Puzzles, Games and Name That Car => Solved AutoPuzzles => 2012 => Topic started by: Djetset on October 25, 2011, 03:13:14 AM

Title: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
Post by: Djetset on October 25, 2011, 03:13:14 AM
Please excuse the awful photo quality, but this was taken from a magazine with very poor-quality images.  

Anyway, for a point, can you name this car? (there are two views to make it easier!).
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on November 17, 2011, 02:10:51 PM
Do the Experts have the foggiest idea?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 14, 2011, 04:07:17 PM
Do the Pros have a clear view of this car?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: SeaLion on December 15, 2011, 12:01:30 AM
Is it a shortened Audi 80?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Carnut on December 15, 2011, 05:31:57 AM
Anything to do with Dutton?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 15, 2011, 06:42:49 AM
No connections that I know of with either Audi or Dutton.
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Arunas on December 15, 2011, 02:39:01 PM
British?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 15, 2011, 03:09:24 PM
As an Englishman I am embarrassed to say yes, sadly it is British! :-\
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Arunas on December 15, 2011, 03:11:10 PM
Ford-based?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 15, 2011, 03:12:05 PM
Yes  ;)
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Arunas on December 15, 2011, 03:40:40 PM
Could it be Astron?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 15, 2011, 03:49:53 PM
It could be an Astron, but it's not  :P
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Allemano on December 23, 2011, 05:03:20 AM
vaguely it resembles the Razzo from ZA, but as you said it's British...
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 23, 2011, 05:58:11 AM
I see your point with the Razzo, but this one is British, so not that I'm afraid!
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Arunas on December 29, 2011, 03:08:19 PM
Could this be a very obscure Sintera from 1995?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on December 29, 2011, 03:14:00 PM
Sorry but not a Sintera.
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on February 17, 2012, 02:20:44 PM
Next stop BH!
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on February 21, 2012, 06:47:03 AM
And in to BH it goes...
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Sandie on March 18, 2012, 03:15:06 PM
Any relation to the Quantum 2+2?

I also thought about an early-80s Cavallo Estivo but that wasn't Ford based.
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 18, 2012, 03:28:08 PM
Could it be a Viking, a 2+2 built in 1986-87 by Viking Cars, Thundersley?
Title: Re: Djetset #560
Post by: Djetset on March 19, 2012, 12:56:34 PM
Yes it is the Viking. Well done PJ, another point to you.

I'm not sure if a certain new book may have helped here, as this had originally been left out, and I filled in this gap just before publication. ;)
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
Post by: autospeurder on March 19, 2012, 03:05:52 PM
Does somebody (maybe Quiller) have a better photo of this car.
A certain new book ;) only shows this car in an unfunished state.
Thanks for putting this car back on the map (and in this book), it was completely unknown to me.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
Post by: Djetset on March 19, 2012, 03:15:19 PM
I took this photo on my Blackberry (which I now know has a poor-quality lens, unlike my earlier model) from an advert for the Viking in an old kit car magazine. 

I will try and find the magazine again (may take a while) and get a better photo of the car.  I've never seen any other images of this sorry-looking car though.
Title: Re: SOLVED: Djetset #560 - Viking Cars Viking 2+2
Post by: Paul Jaray on March 19, 2012, 03:32:22 PM
Quote from: Djetset on March 19, 2012, 12:56:34 PM
Yes it is the Viking. Well done PJ, another point to you.

I'm not sure if a certain new book may have helped here, as this had originally been left out, and I filled in this gap just before publication. ;)
that is exactly where I found it...great, great book!
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